Elon Core Curriculum Council

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Membership List

(Information in italics below is repeated from the Faculty Bylaws Article VIII, Section 11.)

Membership

• Director of the Elon Core Curriculum
• Members of the teaching faculty elected for three-year terms, one from each of the divisions and schools into which the departments are organized, except the Law School, and two at- large from among the teaching faculty. At-large members must represent different divisions. Elections to the Elon Core Curriculum Council occur in a three-year cycle:

Year One

• One member from the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business
• One member from the School of Communications
• One at-large member

Year Two

• One member from Fine Arts and Humanities
• One member from Mathematics and Natural Sciences
• One member from Social Sciences

Year Three

• One member from the Dr. Jo Watts Williams School of Education
• One at-large member

The Elon Core Curriculum Council will elect annually in May a Chair from among the eight teaching faculty members.

• Two student members elected for two-year terms, one elected each year
• Writing Across the Curriculum Director, ex officio
• Faculty of the Law School are excluded from service on this committee.

Duties

• To advise the Director of the Elon Core Curriculum in implementation of the core curriculum program
• To work in consultation with the departments to insure that department courses satisfactorily meet Core Curr iculum requirements
• To provide leadership in creating, modeling, and promoting effective teaching meth ods for Core Curriculum courses
• To develop and implement assessment criteria and procedures to evaluate courses, student development, and the progress o f the Core Curriculum itself
• To promote the goals of Core Curriculum across campus
• To review periodically and make recommendations to the University Curriculum Committee for curricular changes in the core curriculum
• To approve petitions from departments not included in liberal studies for acceptance for one semester of an appropriate class for credit in the Core Curriculum at the advanced (300-400) level
• To approve petitions from departments for acceptance of courses ca rrying a Core Curriculum prefix
• To plan, implement, and review Core Curriculum seminars (first year foundations and advanced)

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Areas of Committee Concern

The committee is concerned with evaluating, revising, and implementing a viable Core Curriculum component of the curriculum.

Policies and Procedures

• Committee meetings will be convened by the Chair, at the convenience of the members, to meet the responsibility of the committee.
• All decisions of the committee are made through normal parliamentary procedure and a majority vote of the members present. A quorum will consist of a majority of the committee membership.
• The committee meets regularly to discuss proposals for core curriculum seminars, other Core Curriculum course proposals, and proposed alteration to current requirements.
• The committee recommends to the curriculum committee changes requiring faculty action.

Methods of Reporting To the Campus Community

The Committee Chair will submit a written annual report to Academic Council. On matters deemed to be of general concern, the Council may request that the committee report directly to the faculty.